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Where a university teaching assistant can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a university teaching assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

University teaching assistants are graduate students or recent graduates employed on a temporary contract at a university or a college for teaching-related responsibilities. They assist the professor, lecturer or teacher of the specific course they are in charge of in the preparation of lectures and of exams, grading papers and exams and leading review and feedback sessions for the students.

Professionals 30 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: special educational needs itinerant teacher, 39%

Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from university teaching assistant. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a university teaching assistant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

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university teaching assistant is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a university teaching assistant already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.